English Fairy Tales, The Rose-tree, sentence 36

“If you will first give me those little red shoes you are making.”

Who acts: you · What happens: give, make · To what, where: little red shoes, shoemaker

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 give	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 give	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 give	advmod
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 give	iobj
8	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 shoes	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shoes	amod
10	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shoes	amod
11	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 give	obj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 making	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 making	aux
14	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 shoes	acl:relcl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	future	you	that little red shoes	the shoemaker = shoemaker			first property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient shoe=Theme
2	make in a quote	present · progressive	you	that little red shoes not said here					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Product

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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